Our Inscribe online palaeography tutorial goes live

After a period of testing, the introductory module of the new free online course on Palaeography and Manuscript Studies is now available. InScribe provides a set of materials suitable both for someone interested in exploring Palaeography for the first time, as well as...

InScribe Paleography Learning materials

In this blog post I would like to introduce you to our latest research training module on History SPOT.  InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study...

GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar

Lancaster University Friday 30th November, 2012 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a...

Launching digital tools modules: Semantic Mark-up and Text Mining

Two new inter-related free modules are now available on the History SPOT platform beginning a series on digital tools. The first is about semantic mark-up – this is a beginner’s guide to marking up a text in XML so that it is searchable for information pertinent to...

InScribe: a new way to learn Palaeography

Welcome to InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials! This new project, based at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), was devised by Prof Michelle Brown (who left the School in July) and Dr Jane Winters. InScribe is a new online resource (VLE) to...

Data preservation for historians

When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data?  Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what?  Have you considered how you might make your data available...